Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Good and Evil...

I am writing this to thank everyone who has sent me positive e-mails and comments on my blog along the way. I was hesitant to write a blog at first ("who is going to care what I'm doing?") but I must say that it has been a positive experience overall it it is so great to have support from friends and fellow triathletes.

That being said, I have had been harassed on my blog since last winter. This person writes anonymous blog comments telling me the most horrible things about myself, basically what a loser I am and what a waste I am as a triathlete. The funny thing is, the person did not write a comment after IM Austria! Guess they couldn't think of anything to say... However, I just got a nasty comment this morning about how much I suck, etc, etc from Im Louisville. Honestly, I didn't read the whole comment, but I got the general idea. Even though I try to look at this with a sense of humour, it is never fun to read horrible things about yourself when you are trying the best you can and just living your life.

I'm sharing this because the funny part of the whole thing is that I have known EXACTLY who has been writing these terrible commentItalics to me for months now! In the spring, after some really terrible comments, I decided to go through the proper authorities and have the comments traced by a professional. I've known who has been "secretly" harassing me for quite a while. I chose to ignore it and not waste too much time on this sad person as they don't deserve my time, but as I came home this morning to find yet another evil comment about what a no-talent, waste of life, bogus Pro Triathlete I am, I decided to write this blog. I choose not to "out" this person because I will then stoop to the sad level that they exist on, but one day (maybe soon) I will run into them again. That should be quite interesting!

For everyone else thank you so much. You don't realize how much it means to have the support and excitement from so many people!!! It makes the journey I have been on that much better... I am happy to have started this blog for that reason.
Cheers,
Danielle